Ya know, I used to be all about Microformats. I still think they’re uber cool but I wonder if the future will prove them to be worthwhile. It all comes down to what services adopt them and how they’re used.

You’re absolutely right. I think it’ll be a long time until they become mainstream. The average Joe wouldn’t know to install Tails Export or Oomph or Operator to work with microformatted data, much less know what microformats are at all. Until browsers incorporate easy-to-use ways to find and use microformatted data, it’ll remain a “toy” of the digerati.